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The U.S. is organizing and funding a military intervention into Haiti, organized under the auspices of the UN, in order to halt Haiti’s revolutionary process, journalist Kim Ives told Orinoco Tribune in a recent interview.

Three Palestinians describe life under constant Israeli bombardment—and lay out their visions for liberation.

A new book exploring the theory, practice and history of socialist commune building in Venezuela.

Orinoco Tribune interviewed U.S. academic Steve Ellner on different issues, ranging from Venezuelan domestic issues to global matters.

Foster explains Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of “metabolic rift” highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism’s focus on profit over sustainability.

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America’s torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.

Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.

For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing.

BRICS countries represent 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s economy, and the group is now considering a possible expansion to more than 20 other countries.

CounterSpin interview with Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters agreement.

A distinguished author from the decolonial tradition discusses the relationship between colonialism and imperialism.

Interview with antiwar writer John Walsh.

An interview with longtime activist Savitri Durkee who was a plaintiff in the record-setting class-action lawsuit.

It is now four years since Julian Assange was imprisoned in Belmarsh’s high-security prison in London and eleven since he was forced into hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in the same city. But even before then, the Australian publisher and WikiLeaks co-founder has been under relentless attack from powerful bodies his organization exposed.

After 20 plus years of educating and organizing throughout the Alabama prison system, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is, “What is a work stoppage like?” Well, it’s surreal, it’s really hard to put into words and I don’t want to be cliche about it, but I’ll do my best.

Oleg Nesterenko: “Moscow has really threatened the status of the American dollar on the international stage, and therefore the whole American economy behind it.”

Oleg Nesterenko: “When we talk about the reasons that led the Russians to intervene militarily in Ukraine, root causes and triggers are often confused, especially in the Western press. The triggers are mistaken for the causes. As for the causes, we don’t even talk about them, or we just talk nonsense. It’s important to distinguish one from the other.”

From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.

Jayati Ghosh speaks about the growing debt crisis in the global south, the IMF’s never-ending affinity for austerity and the need to confront the power of financial capital.

The Venezuelan researcher offers her reflections on Chávez’s geopolitics and the reactivation of the Union of South American Nations.